James Gray spoke about the contemporary resonance of his film “Armageddon Time” in Cannes at the film’s press conference on May 20. Seated next to Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, Gray said he wrote the “Armageddon Time” script before a series of events including the murder of George Floyd and said his initial idea for the film was to show the “layers of white privilege” in the 1980s that still exist today.
“It is impossible to look at the world as it is currently constructed, at least the Western world, at least my country, which I have referred to and I do not see white privilege as one of the guiding mechanisms that exist,” Gray said.
Gray said that people who attend the private school depicted in the film should be seen as “the privilege of a superpower”. “It’s a system where the same group gets to the top, stays at the top, and keeps everyone out. And that’s the system we run. How do you break that cycle? For me,” said the director who was last in Cannes with The Immigrant in 2013. This is the guiding question.
The director lamented that there was a “lack of discourse on this systemic issue” of racial and social inequality, and said his film aims to “show the layers of this system” that “requires a level of oppression for some people to have it all”. That money.”
Gray went on to say that the world is “in serious trouble today” because it is “like two people who have everything” and “a group of tyrants trying to think about the planet.”
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